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At a "due-diligence" briefing at the firm's New York offices late last month for Wall Street analysts whose firms will underwrite the deal, the Carlyle executives said their firm has a greater global footprint than their rivals have, citing what they described as the largest private-equity presence in China.

WASHINGTON—The Energy Department backed what it called the largest residential rooftop solar project in U.S. history Wednesday, offering to guarantee part of $344 million in loans for Solar City Corp. to install rooftop solar panels at military bases.

There are dozens of companies selling stock photography competing with Getty, but the largest is a public company formerly known as Internet. com, named Jupitermedia Corporation, and a private company controlled by Bill Gates, named Corbis.

Spatially, the scheme submitted by architects Dan Wood and Amale Andraos will involve heavy cardboard tubes — the largest is a yard in height, and in diameter — in part because of the shadows they would cast and because of their resilience.